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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Enahncement to DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT setting

Regarding the use of DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT=ON. This env variable will defer memory commitment, asynchronously in the background, for faster completion of ACTIVATE DATABASE. This helps to improve the database activation for large memory systems w...
5 months ago in Db2 1 Under review

DB2 LUW Compatibility for Rocky Linux Operating System

Rocky Linux has proven to be a reliable and stable Linux operating system, supported by most database (RDBMS and NoSQL) software vendors for running database services. Aligning with this operating environment would be cost-effective and ensure a r...
24 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

Alert or Threshold Based on Number of Execution of SQL Query

We have noticed that customer is facing database failover issue when number of execution of any one query is very high which is utilizing all of the system resources. Is there any feasiblity of creating alert/threshold on number of execution of qu...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Under review

Add support for APPL_ID in CREATE TRUSTED CONTEXT for LUW

In Db2 for z/OS the CREATE TRUSTED CONTEXT allows for the inclusion of JOBNAME.There is currently no equivalent in the Db2 LUW version as of 12.1. I would like to suggest that APPL_ID be added in Db2 LUW to give a similar functionality. This w...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

RESTORE DOESN'T PRESERVE THE ORIGINAL TABLESPACE LAYOUT LIKE THE SOURCE

We run into a problem with DB2 restore taking more than one day. SAP created 'Special Build 40602' which preserves the original Tablespace layout. See IBM ticket TS003864545 This 'Special Build' was supposed to be integrated with DB2 version 12, n...
4 months ago in Db2 1 Under review

Ability to Reconnect during a failure on a highly available Database like Cockroach DB

We are replicating data from DB2 to Cockroach DB using the CDC FlexRep flavor. And we have a highly available multi region/multi cluster Cockroach DB which allows client to access the database anytime. A client connecting to the Database uses a Ne...
6 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Under review

Db2 LUW TSM incremental and/or delta backups from FlashCopy off-load server based backup

The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority of Germany (BaFin) uses the Spectrum Protect Snaphot (SPS, aka FlashCopy Manager, FCM) software to create Db2 FlashCopy Backups and to offload them to a backup system. From this backup system are Db2 bac...
about 2 years ago in Db2 1 Under review

For tables w/ columns that are generated by default, update the internal sequence with the next value for the column

When using Qrep for DR , we have to make the target table which has generated numeric values to be generated by default. That is understood. In a DR scenario, when we fail over from the A to the B side, we have to run a script that gets the max va...

Identify all email notifications in OpenPages by whom and by when sent

Identify all email notifications since go live in the system and where these are stored in the application or database to access. These are required for Auditing. • # of emails each users gets in one day • The type of emails being sent to each use...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Under review

AI-Powered Neurodivergent Employment Support and Identification Collaborative Concept

Proposal: AI-Powered Neurodivergent Employment Support and IdentificationCollaborative Concept Developed by: John C. Payte and IBM Watsonx Powered AI (Version: Watson Assistant 4.7.1, Model: wa-nlp-4.7.1-2022-07-15) Introduction:As a collaborative...
8 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review